Yes Liz I agree entirely. A boy (17) in our village was killed by a truck when walking home one night two years ago. Every time my kids are out I imagine that and every other awful thing I've heard of happening to them, but as you said, preparation would not have helped at all. Accidents happen. We just have to keep our horror imaginings to ourselves (as far as the kids go) and let them go anyway. One of the painful parts of parenting. (Not that my son would have been walking home from a nightclub in the dark at the time of night it was)

Your other comment is very true too. We are having so many "2 minutes silences" for so many events that we are becoming de-sensitised and it actually then becomes an insult to those who have died.

Love Lynne